This paper is concerned with the different forms of organizations which emerge in a capitalist market society. A theory is presented which primarily aims to describe and explain the repertoire of organizational forms which occur in such economies. In this paper, there is an emphasis on the...

Recent dynamics in the social and economic environment have facilitated the emergence of new-hybrid-organizational forms, a phenomenon that has been frequently associated with the blurring of boundaries among the for-profit, public and nonprofit sectors. Focusing on social enterprises, a...

Insertion enterprises are described as economic nature activities whose goal is the socio-economic insertion -by generating employment opportunities- for the so-called "social disabled people": ethnic minorities, immigrants, homeless, former convicts, former alcoholics and former drug addicts....

This paper studies the elements which can explain the transformations of the concept of non profit sector after the French Revolution from 1789 to 1898. Our analysis is grounded on the study of economic thought as well as economic and social facts. Two periods are defined. From 1789 to 1898, the...

This work presents a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Italy including, for the first time, an economic account of the non-profit sector (or “third sector”). The year it refers to is 1999. In the first part of this article I address statistical definition of the non-profit sector and how I...

Almost all of us sometimes voluntarily give up some scarce resources to make someone else better. Not only the amount of resources used for such purposes, but also other wider concerns (implications for private and government sector) have drawn the attention of economists in recent decades. In...

Economic activity in a mixed economy is shared among different kinds of organizations: private for-profit, private non-profit and governmental organizations, which are closely interdependent among them. For a long time the private non-profit sector has been considered as a marginal sector that...

The article presents a comparative analysis of the internal structure and principles of the organization of volunteer associations in Russia and France from the perspective of the sociology of organizations. The theoretical framework of the study combines the concepts of the neo-institutionalist...

This paper tries to explain how the confrontation between economic liberalism, politic liberalism and civil liberalism, from 1789 to 1901, leads to transform the way of thinking of the non profit sector.